Yes, 26 goal contributions in 50 games seems like a great return, no? Well, lets deep dive a little bit:
5 g+a against 36th place Young Boys
3 g+a against 14th place Verona
2 g+a against Serie B Cesena
2 g+a against 20th place Monza
2 g+a against 30th place Sturm Graz
2 g+a against 18th place Empoli
This is 16 g+a in stat-padding games against literal fodder teams. Take out these, and you have 44 games with Atalanta, with 10 g+a. In fact, if we even count national team games, CDK played 44(!!) games last season where he didn't even register a single g+a. 44!
This guy is inconsistent as hell, stat-padding against fodder, but useless in 85% of the games. We were fooled once with a player like this - Chukwueze in his last Villareal season managed to get no goals or assists in 30 league games.
I don't get why some people are still in love with CDK. He is an inconsistent beta cuck, a pussy, who showed he doesn't have the character to be a champion. Even now, when "on paper" he has great numbers, but if you take a closer look at it, you see that he is a fool's gold player. We made a good deal with getting rid of him for 25 mil. It was a necessary loss mitigation.